With all the movies I've made about history, it's not really fun because you're trying to get it right. You've got history telling how it was, and then my imagination is telling me how I wish it had been, but I can't go there, so I have to censor myself. I'm very good about stopping myself from creating history that never occurred, but it's frustrating.

And I may often question choices I make as a producer. But I've never questioned the choices I make as a director.

Because of how much movies cost, it's dangerous to be experimental on one film after the other. But we can experiment with television. We can do things that are fringe and bring ideas to the table that are offbeat and original.

If movies generically don't work, you immediately start to pick apart what ingredients contributed to that. If any movie is working, hopefully how it was made will be the least of your concern. You'll only want to have a god time.

I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.

When I don't have a movie, I don't take a job just for the sake of working. I just sit it out until I find something I'm passionate about.

There are so many rumours about so many of us in the public eye. Sometimes it's too hard to deny what is not true.